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Damien Richard Martyn

Born: 21 October 1971, Darwin, Northern Territory
Major Teams: Western Australia, Leicestershire, Australia.
Known As: Damien Martyn
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium


Test Debut: Australia v West Indies at Brisbane, 1st Test, 1992/93
Latest Test:
Australia v England at Brisbane, 1st Test, 2002/03

ODI Debut:
Australia v West Indies at Sydney, World Series, 1992/93
Latest ODI:
Australia v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03

First-class Debut: Western Australia v Victoria at Perth, 1990/91

Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy 1990
Leicestershire 1991
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2002

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (including 07/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   29   46   9  1770  133   47.83  52.75   5  11   13   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling              27      7    75    1  75.00  1-3     0   0 162.0  2.77

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
 (including 27/09/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  104   87  28  2333  144*  39.54  78.49   3  11   37   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling             111.1    2   587   11  53.36  2-21    0   0  60.6  5.28

FIRST-CLASS
 (1990/91 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  156  264  38 11066  203*  48.96  34  56  129   2

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             516.5  136  1442   35  41.20  4-30    0   0  88.6  2.79

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (1991/92 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  186  163  41  5164  144*  42.32   7  31   67   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling             237    1183   40  29.57  3-3     0   0  35.5  4.99

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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A former member of the Australian Cricket Academy and a previous Australian under 19 captain, Damien Martyn is an aggressive middle order batsman. Whilst he is not particularly tall, he is nevertheless very upright at the crease and is an adventurous player, whose natural inclination is always to go on the attack and to punish loose bowling. For an Australian, he is also an unusually wristy batsman. On the back of a number of impressive performances for state team Western Australia, a measure of how well regarded he was as a young batsman came in his elevation to his country's Test team at the age of twenty-one. It was a taste of elite level cricket which was to last for a period in excess of twelve months before his unfortunate dismissal in the closing stages of the tension-laced Sydney Test against South Africa in 1994-95 spelled the end of his international ambitions for more than four years.

Having continued to serve as a key figure in the Warriors' team in the intervening period (a reality highlighted by a brilliant Mercantile Mutual Cup campaign in 1997-98 which saw him break the record for the most runs by a player in a single domestic one-day season), Martyn won a recall to the national one-day side in 1998. It was from here that his career was re-ignited. Continued hard work at his game both physically and mentally led to appearances during the one-day tours of India, Pakistan and Sharjah, in the Wills International Cup in Bangladesh, and again at the 1999 World Cup in England. A further brightening of his position ensued when he adapted successfully to the task of scoring briskly in the middle and closing overs of several games in the Carlton and United Series of 1999-2000; in a six match series against New Zealand across the Tasman; and a three match battle in South Africa in April 2000. The New Zealand visit even saw him adapt to the responsibility of opening, which he did in the best possible style by carrying his bat to compile a defiant century while others crumbled around him in the final ODI at Auckland. On the same tour, the ongoing unavailability through injury of Ricky Ponting also paved the way for Martyn to reappear in the Test eleven in for the first time since his fateful Sydney appearance. In topping his team's averages and twice rescuing Australia from particularly precarious positions (most notably, with his unbeaten 89 in the Third Test at Hamilton), he showed during that series that there should now remain few reservations about his status as one of his nation's top contemporary players. (John Polack, July 2000)

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